As a result of a joint investigation and operation between the Investigative Unit (Unidad Especial de Investigación (UEI) in Spanish) of the Office of the Attorney General, the National Police and the National Army, José Gabriel Castañeda Vargas, alias El Político, the alleged ringleader of the criminal structure ‘ Los Caparros’ in Bajo Cauca Antioquia, was arrested.
According to information collected by authorities, this person would be responsible for committing intimidations, extortions, and selective murders ordered by alias Caín or Pilatos, who is the top ringleader of the Organized Armed Group (Grupo Armado Organizado (GAO) in Spanish). As a matter of fact, he is accused of the murder of the community leader Norberto Alonso Gutiérrez Ramírez, which took place on September 3, 2019, in the rural settlement La Caucana-Tarazá (Antioquia).
For these facts, the Office of the Attorney General charged alias ‘El Político’ with conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, forced displacement, drug trafficking, and illegal manufacture, trafficking and possession of firearms for the exclusive use of the military forces. A detention order with imprisonment was issued by a supervisory judge.
Three people have been arrested and tried for the murder of Norberto Gutiérrez, among them, Roimer Andrés Hernández Baldovino, another alleged member of ‘Los Caparros’ who is accused of being the material author of the crime.